![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/joe-calzaghes-model-ex-spared-jail-over-part-in-104m-cash-smuggling-ring/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/newspress-collage-22875387-1688114798422.jpg&description=Breaking MODEL MULE Published : 16:33, 12 Jul 2023 Updated : 16:38, 12 Jul 2023 JOE Calzaghe's glamour model ex has been spared jail after helping to move millions of pounds in a £104million cash smuggling ring. Jo-Emma Larvin , 44, hid the dirty money in luggage before flying from Heathrow to Dubai . 12 Jo-Emma Larvin helped smuggle cash out of the country Credit: Central News 12 The model, who previously dated Joe Calzaghe, moved £5million in her luggage Credit: Getty The model, who dated the Welsh boxer for six years until 2009, moved £5million in total over two trips. Calzaghe was not involved in the cash smuggling network. Larvin, who now describes herself as a "safari specialist" and wildlife photographer has now been spared jail. She was instead sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years. Larvin was convicted of removing criminal property from the UK alongside five others at Isleworth Crown Court . Her partner Jonathan Johnson, who helped move the cash, received a 12 month sentence suspended for two years. The couple will carry out a combined 300 hours of unpaid work and will be on a curfew for the next six months. Sentencing Larvin, Judge Sarah Paneth said: "My own assessment of you, observing you give evidence and throughout the trial is someone who has many positive qualities. "You are indeed a very kind and caring person, and this offending is completely out of character I have no doubt you feel the burden of Mr Johnson's involvement but you did not recruit him, he was, in my judgment, keen to be involved in an opportunity you had come across by chance." Jurors heard smugglers were paid £3,000 per trip and treated to an all-expenses-paid holiday in the UAE. They were recruited into the racket by mum-of-two "kingpin" Michelle Clarke, 42, who is still on the run. In her first trip, Larvin took £2.2million in seven suitcases when travelling with Amy Harrison, 27. She also flew from Heathrow with partner Jonathan Johnson, 55, in September 2020){kind=link}
JOE Calzaghe’s glamour model ex has been spared jail after helping to move millions of pounds in a £104million cash smuggling ring.
Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, hid the dirty money in luggage before flying from Heathrow to Dubai.
The model, who dated the Welsh boxer for six years until 2009, moved £5million in total over two trips.
Calzaghe was not involved in the cash smuggling network.
Larvin, who now describes herself as a “safari specialist” and wildlife photographer has today been spared jail.